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There's No 'I' in 'Team'; FREEFORM! (AGAIN!)
Topic Started: May 14 2010, 12:18 PM (317 Views)
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Summary: Caligo and Faith get to know each other better, and Faith teaches Caligo about being part of a team. Yeah, I know, I suck at summaries.

Rewards wanted:
1) Caligo to learn Baton Pass, a level up move for Eevee, as part of his natural moveset. They learn this move at level 36 normally; he is currently level 13.
2) Happiness for Faith and Caligo.

EDIT: Oh. This is gonna now be a freeform for the June Monthly Contest. *nods*
Edited by DarthEevee, Jun 29 2010, 09:54 AM.
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The silver leafeon crouched low, a faint humming whistle barely audible as her tail twitched back and forth. She held her pose for but a moment, then bounded forward, aiming for the small brown furball that waited in a similar pose. She had him this time, for sure...

She squeaked as abruptly, at what she was positive was beyond the last second, slipped between her paws, leaving her to land with a thump in the dust. "HEY!" she yelped, then squawked, scrambling to dodge his counterstrike.

The grass type wasn't nearly as successful, however, and found herself bowled over, with the Eevee sitting on her chest with a triumphant expression. "Good job there, squirt." She sulked as their trainer paced over carefully, giving the young pokemon a good scratch behind the ears. He preened, and bounded off to the dark wolf not too far off, chirping about his accomplishments to his dad.

"You're doing better, too, princess." Ben scooped the leafeon into his lap as she continued to sulk. "Keep at it. It's not your fault that he has something of an advantage, genetic-wise. You really should get to know him better, anyhow." She sniffed at the idea. "Oh, come on. You've got things you can do that he never could, just like he has things you don't. Go talk to him sometime. See if you can't show him a little. I'm sure he could learn Baton Pass, eh, Faith?"

"Lea." She didn't even bother articulating, simply making a disdainful yip at their trainer. Get to know better that snippy little...

"You know, he just wants to impress you. And you're both eevees after a fashion. Get to know him." Ben gave her one last scratch before putting her down and heading over to the young pokemon curled up under the protective chin of the mightyena. "Hey squirt. Gotcha a name, too. How do you like Caligo?"

The small grass type watched as their trainer played a bit with the two pokemon, then leaned over and whispered something into the mightyena's ear. The wolf's pink tongue lolled out in amusement at whatever it was, glancing over toward Faith, who tried not to show a shiver of foreboding at the look. No matter what her dear 'daddy' said, she wasn't going to believe that all the furball wanted was to impress her.

Why would he even care about that sort of thing, anyhow?

She didn't even notice when there were several more flashes of red abruptly filled the street corner. Faith blinked at the sudden crowd of pokemon, all blinking in the sunlight. "Shinobi, you're up." Ben moved out of the way, as the mightyena stood up, tail swishing cheerfully.

"Training time..." the tongue lolled out in a wolfish grin, as the white arcanine took a seat beside him and the rest of the newly assembled pokemon fanned out in a sort of half-circle to listen, some suspiciously, others curiously. "Here's the deal. This is teamwork training. You're going to be in teams of two, four total. The objective is to get out of town, circle it once, and then get back here. Both you and your chosen partner have to be here or you don't win."

Faith slicked her ears back at this. She was fairly certain what was going to come up next, and she wasn't going to participate...

"Going somewhere?" She squeaked as she nearly ran into their trainer's legs, trying to get out. "You need to learn to work together with others. Everyone does. Sometimes there are tag battles, after all." She glowered up at him, but saw no compromise. "Even I've had to work with people I don't particularly like on occasion. You have to learn to work together sometime." The trainer backed up, and waved. "And now you've also missed half the instructions of this exercise. Good luck, princess."

"Whaa..but...I...that...you..." Faith squawked inarticulately, ear flicking back as she realized that the mightyena hadn't stopped speaking.

"...must come back and start from here again. You head down this street, that way, out of town, circle, and come back down that street. All right? Jax here and I are one team. Inari, you work with Fate. Bob, you're with Gouka..." Faith slicked her ears back as the wolf met her gaze, putting all her irritation behind the glower. They couldn't do this to her!

"Cal, son, you go join Faith, alright?" The mightyena nudged the eevee that was sitting quietly up until now between his paws, and the young pokemon nodded and minced over, trying to look as unoffensive as possible.

She wasn't about to participate...until she met Shinobi's gaze one last time. She quailed under the cold expression. If she were responsible for intentionally causing his son to lose...she didn't want to know what the ninja wolf would do to her...

"Do you have any ideas?" Faith squeaked, looking down at the eevee seated in front of her. He looked up at her, a bit nervously.

"Not a clue. I don't even get the point of this. It's stupid."

"It's to work on teamwork. You have to get out of the town without being noticed by people, and then circle the town, trying to tag the other teams while not getting tagged yourself, and then get back in here, both of us, before anyone else."

"It's still...wait. Tagged? What do you mean, tagged?" Faith momentarily lost the train of her irritation in the confusion of his simple reiteration of the rules. She blinked, then huffed, attempting to regather her thoughts into order again.

"Well, if you see another pokemon, you can tag them, and if you do so before they tag you or what, they have to come back here and start again, trying to sneak out and all. I figure..."

"I don't care what you think." Faith got up abruptly, and stalked off down the indicated road, and squawked as she was abruptly flattened by a white dinner plate paw. She twisted in an attempt to glare up at Jax, as the arcanine pinned her gently, but firmly in place.

"The exercise hasn't started yet, you know. You have five minutes to discuss strategy, and then when that time is up, Ben will say when we can go." She lifted her paw, glancing over at the dithering eevee nearby. "You need to work together or you're going to lose miserably. And one thing. Don't think about tagging anyone until they leave the city, all right. Fair is fair." Faith sat up, huffily shaking the snow out of her silvery fur, and setting about putting it back in order.

"Um..." Caligo slunk back over beside her and sat down. She ignored him. "I, uh...well. You know, being little and all, we can at least do better at the stealth bit, though being brown and your green..."

"You don't like how I look?" she turned on him, leafy green ears flattening as she momentarily flashed fangs before catching herself, feeling a parental gaze burning a hole in her back, turning away with another huff and turning her attention to her fur again.

"I didn't mean that...I think it's pretty actually. But I'm just saying that we're gonna have to be really careful, particularly about Jax..."

She paid little heed to his continued uncertain rambles, though one word eventually registered, causing a furtive look over her shoulder at her flustered companion. Had he just called her pretty? Must have been her imagination. She flicked an ear as he continued, uncertainly.

"...so I dunno really. I don't know what all you can do for one...but..."

"Time's up, go!" Even Caligo squeaked as Ben broke in abruptly with those words. Faith blinked, as most of the pokemon stopped muttering to each other, but only one or two set out, cautiously. This was even more confusing.

"If this is some sort of race, why isn't everyone moving?" Faith grumbled, getting to her feet.

"It's not JUST a race. Ya gotta not be seen and stuff!" Caligo bounded after her. "Wait..!"

"Faith, back to the start point, please." Ben hadn't moved from leaning against the light pole he'd been at since she nearly plowed into him, but then, he didn't necessarily need to be. She glanced over at him, following his pointing finger, noting the pair of people admiring her silver coat, and sighed, sulking back to the starting point. Of course, with his ability to sense Auras, and sort of emotions at times, she supposed it made sense, though how he knew who was being noticed...

"You were the only one moving at the time, Faith...you gotta be careful. Here...watch, then follow me, okay?" Caligo practically oozed a desire to help, but she didn't want it, deliberately misunderstanding the eagerness to be a desire to show off instead. A little part of her mind voiced a protest at her unfair treatment, but it was buried in the jealousy.

"Whatever." She turned her back on him, even as he drooped at her huffy tone, but snuck a covert look over her shoulder, to watch him slip nonchalantly off down the street, practically vanishing into the shadows as he darted along the edges of the building, waiting for several minutes at one of the cross streets, before apparently deeming it safe to cross and vanishing into the distance.

He was good, she had to admit. And she could still feel the eyes of the mightyena on her back, as she glanced around once more. There wasn't a patch of black hide in sight, though, so it must have been her imagination. She wasn't about to participate in this...

Still...she looked around uneasily once more, and then scuttled off down the street, keeping to the side, as a point where there wasn't anyone around presented itself.

"So, think it'll work?"

"Yen..." The shady wolf practically seemed to materialize out of an alley behind Ben, as the trainer sat there. He couldn't understand the canine...but he had a pretty good idea what Shinobi had meant.

"Well, we'll see, I guess. I've been spoiling her a bit, like Anubis says all the time. She's got a good heart though. She just needs to remember that." Ben reached down to ruffle the fur between Shinobi's ears. "But you're still in this yourself, so off with you."

Moments later, Ben was alone at the crossroads, though it was hard to say exactly when it was that the black wolf had left. He wondered how long it'd be before anyone came trooping back.
Edited by DarthEevee, Jun 26 2010, 11:44 AM.
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"There you are! What took you so long?" Faith flicked an ear in irritation as she stalked past Caligo, further into the woods. "I was starting to get worried..."

Faith sighed. "Why didn't you just sneak around the town and get back already. We both know you could do it."

The eevee fluffed all his fur up at the huffy response. "Because it's a team exercise. Sure, I coulda got back and all...but then you'd be on your own, and I'd still not win," he replied, stung. He trailed off, as what he'd just said registered even to himself, then added hastily, "Not that I'm saying that you can't do stuff or the like, but..."

"So I'm holding you back?" She glowered down at this little ball of fluff, then turned and stalked off. The arrogance of that little...

"No! I just meant that we're supposed to work together! Would you just lis...LOOK OUT!" She froze as something large and black abruptly loomed up out of nowhere, headed straight for her. She squeaked and flattened herself against the ground, narrowly avoiding the collision. "Run already!" Caligo put those words into action, bounding off into the forest at full speed. Rattled by the near miss, Faith simply followed for the moment.

The two paused in a little clearing a short way away, catching their breath. "What do you think this is? We're supposed to be working together. If you get tagged, you gotta go back to the start and try all over. If you keep on not even trying..."

He paused at a flash of red appearing around a tree, and both of them eyed the vulpix a bit warily. Inari shook himself a bit. "Don't mind me. Just got flattened by a moving snowdrift." He sniffed slightly, and trotted on.

"Moving...snowdrift?" Faith looked bemusedly after him.

"Better get moving, then, since that probably means someone else is around here." Caligo considered a moment, then dove into the snow, rolling about before straightening up. "And a walking snowdrift is a lot less noticeable out here."

Faith shivered as she looked over the snow clinging to his coat, ears slicking flat against her back as she lowered her head to sniff at the snow a moment. "I hope you're not expecting me to do that..." she sneezed, trying not to shudder again at the thought. It was cold enough out here without her burying herself in the painful particles.

"Well, I..." Caligo paused, as if something only just registered while he looked back at her. He sneezed himself, then shook his head, "Er, that is, I mean, not really. But if one of us is a little less conspicuous, it should help, right?" He didn't wait for an answer, but scampered off around the town, tail drooping.

Curious at this point, Faith followed. She was stuck for this, at this point, and when it came down to it, he had been trying to help her out. "Okay, so how does this tagging thing work?" she muttered reluctantly. She should at least know what the rules were...

Caligo perked up as she addressed him, ears flicking up and around as they continued. "See, if you spot someone ahead of you, you can try and tag them. You get them, they gotta go back to start. It's not too hard, really...other than you really do gotta come into contact with 'em. You only get one try per spotting of 'em, though, but if you miss, they can't immediately tag you back, either." He paused, glancing ahead, a crafty expression flitting across his face. "See, watch." The eevee skulked off abruptly, somehow vanishing into the snowdrifts with his sketchy camouflage.

She followed after a little, trying to figure out what he was up to, then stopped as she spotted movement ahead, blinking. Gouka huffed, breath steaming in the cold air, some fifty feet ahead, stalking along as if she owned the forest. The leafeon watched the houndour, trying to figure out where Caligo had gone, when a bit of snow abruptly detached itself from the forest and plowed into the other canine.

"Gotcha!" Caligo hopped back, ears perked straight up in excitement, the collision knocking most of the clingy snow cover out of his coat as Gouka snarled in irritation, but then huffed and stalked back towards down.

"Stupid game anyhow..." Faith started forward, slowly, edging around the fire type.

She stopped again, though, as Caligo turned to face her. "See? You tag 'em, then..." she was barely listening, focusing instead on the forest behind the young eevee. Had that snowdrift moved? Snow wasn't alive, though. "...but we do gotta watch out for others that could do the same thing from behind us, like papa tried earlier. He's probably still back there..."

Faith reflexively shot a look over her shoulder, then shivered and started forward. "Um, right. Let's get going then..." Caligo blinked, then followed after them.

Neither of them noted the snowdrift that detached itself from the forest shortly after they got out of sight, setting out after them.

"But wouldn't the whole thing mean that the first one out would be the ones that win, probably, if they just run all out after getting out of town?" The leafeon shook her head. She still didn't get what the purpose behind this was.

"Aside from the fact that both team members have to get there, I suppose. Someone could also use the leaving first to get a hiding spot and ambush some later comers, to make it harder, or what, if they wanted, I suppose...to help their team mate." Caligo trotted a little way ahead of her, keeping alert. "But that's not necessarily likely, other than if they were to be clearing the way for their own team mate. Who knows. We should just keep moving."

Faith shook melting snow out of her fur, only half listening once again. Something felt off, and she couldn't place it. She glanced around uneasily, as Caligo continued on further ahead, unaware of her unease, or of her slowing down. Looking over her shoulder proved completely unenlightening. She stopped dead, looking back forward and trying to spot the eevee ahead of her. "Um...Cal..."

She didn't get any further, as the moment she took her eyes off the back trail, there was a rush of something barreling past her at high speed. She had only a vague impression of white in motion before it was gone, flashing ahead after Caligo. A moving snowdrift...

"Look out...hey, CAL!" Belatedly, the rest of her mind kicked into gear and she bounded forward, catching sight of the white blur bearing down on the brown furball. Her shout had warned him, at least, getting him to look over his shoulder, but the startling sight of the snow pile barreling at him had apparently made him freeze in place in shock. There was no way she was getting there in time, though. There was no time though, and he was going to get flattened...

Caligo shimmered abruptly and split apart as the white monster closed in, suddenly presenting three targets that shot off in different directions, causing the white thing to skid to a halt, trying to figure out which to chase. Faith, so caught up in her own surprise at the maneuver, plowed straight into one thick, powerful leg with a squawk.

The snow monster looked over her shoulder, startled, then barked out a laugh at the sight of the silvery heap crumpled beside one of her haunches, before bounding off into the snow, fading into the background in moments. "You got Jax! You got her!"

Faith sat up in bemusement, shaking her head, as the small crowd of eevees bounded over, excitedly. She shook her head, but the images didn't solidify. "I think I broke my head..." she moaned as all the Caligos bounced right in front of her. "All of you are making it worse, too," she grumbled, sitting up carefully.

"Wha...oh. Sorry." The bouncing eevees stopped, and all but one of them slowly faded out of existence. "I just figured that it was probably the best way to keep from getting tagged."

"Yeah...though if you're so big on winning, I dunno why you didn't just do that in the first place." That was one of the things that irritated her about the fuzzball. He always kept all these tricks of his up his sleeve.

"I didn't think you could do it...it's something I got from papa..." Caligo blinked in confusion.

"So? Just pass it over." She huffed a little. Surely he wasn't that self centered...

"You can do that?" Faith resisted a vague temptation to swat him out of irritation at his smugness.

"Yeah. With Baton..." She trailed off, recalling the conversation that had started this whole stupid thing. "...Pass...oh," she finished the comment a bit sheepishly, ears slicking back at her own thoughtlessness, sneaking a look toward the confused eevee. Confused, not smug. "I mean...I always knew how to do that..." she tried again, feeling more foolish by the moment.

It didn't help that Caligo was apparently completely oblivious to her embarrassment, ears pricking up interestedly. "How's it work? Maybe you can show me!" Obviously the idea of making both of them harder to tag appealed to him, at least.

"Er...it's...well, you gather up everything you've used on yourself, forming it into a little bar...sorta. Whoever touches it after you gets all the benefits you stored into it, see? I mean..." She tried to recall the lessons she'd gotten in perfecting it from that wierd old guy in Misthenge. "What it is...is a gift technique. You end up losing out on the abilities, but...you give them to someone else. To help them out."

She hadn't really been being very helpful this whole time, she realized, and even patently obstructive, on occasion...she shoved the uncomfortable thoughts aside. "Let's see..." She thought a moment, then let out a soft trill, as if pleading with something, throwing her head back as she did so, and a moment later, focused and snapped up the little bar that formed in the air in front of her, tossing it with a flip of her head to Caligo. "Catch!"

Caligo did so, blinking as it practically dissolved on his tongue when his teeth snapped shut on it, and then moments later something glittering rained down around him, soothingly. Faith shuffled a bit self-consciously. "I really don't have much that it'd be useful for..." she admitted a bit guiltily. And who was the one being selfish?

Conscience pricking at her, Faith trotted further along through the trees. "G'wan, then. You've actually got a use for it, at least, unlike me."

Caligo blinked, then trotted after her. "But I don't...how does it work again?"

Faith sighed, guilt curbing her impatience, and tried again. "You gather up all those copies you make, and then pass them on. The bar is purely the condensed version of them that allows you to give them to someone else. It's kinda like putting something in a box so that you can give it to someone else...just it's a bar."

It was obvious that she wasn't doing a good job at explaining, from his bemused expression, but the little eevee still made the effort, multiplying, then focusing on all the copies and trying to gather the illusion together, to pass it over to her.

It passed the time as they circled the town, at least. It wasn't until they were nearly back to where they had started that Caligo finally managed to condense it all into a bar and flip it over to Faith. She caught it a bit awkwardly, squeaking in surprise as there were suddenly a small horde of hers surrounding her, following her movement. "Wow!" She pranced a bit, watching all of them follow her every movement.

"Neat, huh?" Caligo grinned as he watched her, then turned and started down the road back towards the starting point.

"Yeah, but you forgot something." Faith yelped as one of the trees beside her suddenly sprouted a massive black wolf, who flattened her in an instant, causing all the multiples to vanish. "I've got a very good nose. Nice try, though." Shinobi lolled his tongue out a moment as he sat on the squirming leafeon.

"No fair!" Caligo squealed, hopping about.

"Everything's fair in a training exercise." Jax trotted out and past the pair of them, vanishing down the street.

"How'd she catch up so fast?" Faith glowered suspiciously after the white canine, giving up on trying to squirm free.

"Arcanines are one of the fastest pokemon around, remember." With that, Shinobi bounded off after her. "It was a good try, though, you two. C'mon then." Faith righted herself, still grumbling, and stalked after the black wolf.

Caligo dithered a moment more, then fell in after her, looking crestfallen enough that she couldn't help but give him an encouraging whuff over her shoulder as they came to a halt in the small square.

Ben straightened up as they reappeared, smiling a bit, running a hand through Jax's fur. "So, Jax and Shinobi win, it seems. Faith, you gotta get going, if you don't want to come in last..."

"What?!" Faith stared at their trainer, as he spoke. "But...that...I..."

"Well?" Shinobi pricked his ears, glancing around the square, where currently only Fate rested, aside from the rest of them. "You never know, right?"

"But, but, but..." the leafeon gave up, and turned to head back out, grumbling in irritation. Stupid training exercise thing...

"Hey, Faith?" She paused at the eevee's calling her, and looked back at him with a frown.

He grinned, "Catch!" The small stick flipped through the air, and she caught it, with a smile, then skittered off down the street.
Edited by DarthEevee, Jun 29 2010, 09:46 AM.
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(( Knew I was forgetting something. ))

THE GAME
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present. ~Oogway

Ben Summers
Current Location
APL: 50
MPL: 50
Full Circle - Freeform
Revenance - Freeform
Trial By Fire - Co-Op Freeform with Celeste
Lex Cambridge
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MPL: 50


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Go for it, run towards it, dive in head first. Live life with no regrets!
Hee. I thought it was cute. :3 Not much else I can say since I didn't find anything wrong. Missed one of Shinobi's font tags, though... :P

The game reference was also good, since it wasn't obvious to me what it was, but it was still there once I figured out what the game was.

So yeah!

Rewards!
The little nipper Eevee learns Baton Pass.
3 :happiness each for Caligo and Faith
And then the remaining 8.2 :ffexp
Edited by Steel Cerberus, Jun 30 2010, 10:37 PM.
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